Purdue at Chicago

Saturday, October 26, 1929

Purdue beat Chicago 26–⁠0. It was their 35th meeting; after it, Chicago led the series 27–⁠7–⁠1.

AwayPurdue8–⁠0 in 1929
26
HomeChicago7–⁠3 in 1929
0

FinalAttendance 38,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: GRID GAMES ON SATURDAY

    The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 28, 1929, page 5 (results column)

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    GRID GAMES ON SATURDAY The following are results of prin- cipal football games played last Saturday in various parts of the country: Oregon IA; Washington Univer- sity 0. University of Southern California ‘; Stanford O. Oregon State 27; Idaho O. Gonzaga T; Mount. Charles 6. Penn State G.; Lafayette 3. Columbia 33; Williams 0. Syracuse 6; Brown 0. Amherst ?; Wesleyan 0. Dartmouth 34; Harvard 2. Colgate 62; Providence 0. Iowa T. Wisconsin 0. Ohio 25; Cincinnati 0. Missouri T; Nebraska 2. Illinois 14; Michigan 0. Yale 21: Army 13. Notre Dame T; Carnegie Tech Q. Navy 13; Princeton 13. Ohio State 0; Indiana 0. Purdue 26; Chicago 0. Kansas 33; Iowa State O. Tulane 20; Georgia Tech 14. Florida IS; Georgia 6.

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Purdue 63% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Chicago leads 27–⁠14–⁠1 in 42 meetings, counting the seven since this game.

Recent meetings
1936Purdue 35, Chicago 7
1935Purdue 19, Chicago 0
1934Purdue 26, Chicago 20
1933Purdue 14, Chicago 0
1932Purdue 37, Chicago 0
1931Purdue 14, Chicago 6

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